Innovating Energy Management: How IntelliTect Helped Enhance Development Capacity and Drive Architectural Excellence

Background

A global leader in energy and water management solutions, operates in over 100 countries, providing utilities and cities with innovative tools to manage resources efficiently. Their extensive portfolio includes intelligent networks, software, meters, and sensors designed to optimize resource usage and promote conservation. With a mission to safeguard the world’s resources and improve the quality of life, the company continuously seeks ways to enhance its capabilities. To accelerate progress on critical initiatives and maintain their pace of innovation, they partnered with IntelliTect for additional expertise and support.

Challenge

To meet their ambitious project goals and ensure timely delivery, the company sought IntelliTect’s assistance in both development and architectural guidance. Tight deadlines and the complexity of deploying solutions across diverse environments (on-premises and private clouds) presented significant challenges. Additionally, the evolving team structure required a collaborative approach to maintain consistency and quality.

Key challenges included:

• Ambitious project timelines requiring expert resources
• Complex cross-platform deployment needs
• Evolving team composition with varying levels of familiarity with the technology stack
• Optimizing data processing for millions of households to reduce latency and infrastructure costs

Solution

IntelliTect’s collaboration with the company focused on solving performance bottlenecks and optimizing technical solutions. By refining APIs, enhancing Kafka communication, and improving Kubernetes deployment pipelines, IntelliTect helped to ensure the system’s scalability and cross-platform compatibility.

Key contributions included:

1. IntelliTect augmented the company’s team with senior and junior developers, enabling them to meet tight customer deadlines while maintaining high-quality standards.
2. The team provided architectural leadership, particularly in domain-driven design and microservices, ensuring codebase consistency despite shifting team members.
3. IntelliTect leveraged Kubernetes, Kafka, and Terraform to facilitate seamless deployment across different environments.
4. IntelliTect trained the company’s India-based team on the selected technology stack and mentored U.S.-based developers to enhance their skills.
5. Assisted in integrating the 2030.5 protocol via Kitu, a trusted partner company, helping the company improve device communication capabilities.

Outcome

By integrating seamlessly into the company’s internal processes and providing critical architectural and development support, IntelliTect helped them achieve its project goals on time while enhancing long-term maintainability. The domain-driven design approach minimized code decay and ensured that new developers could be onboarded efficiently. Additionally, the cross-platform deployment strategy positioned the company for future scalability across various cloud environments.

Key results:

• Successful completion of project milestones while accelerating progress on key initiatives
• Improved codebase maintainability and team onboarding
• Enhanced cross-platform deployment capabilities using Kubernetes and Kafka